Posted 18 June 2014

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The Octagon is waiting. Make every strike, every counter, every submission count in EA Sports UFC on PS4. Witness in real time as fighters showcase EA’s new technology including realistic muscle flexing and full body deformation, where every strike will make an impression.

Also waiting for you on PS Store this week; Tales of Space: Mutant Blobs Attack for PS3 and two-wheel racing goodness in MotoGP 14 on PS3 and PS4. And, if you’re aching for an old-school RPG adventure then Dragon Fantasy Book I should serve you well.

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Very nice! Thanks Jawad you are the only guy at Sony we can still trust.

@Sony fulfill your promise of mp3 custom soundtracks in all games and less sequels and remakes! SoNY must innovate, NOT COPY! And how about free digital upgrades, games like mario and realistic digital prices?!

How about constant improvements to psn, store, download system? Stop being lazy, sony, Android & Apple are not waiting for you ! :)

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Seriously, you keep asking about Cross Region Gifting, can you at least define what you mean by that?

Say I gift you a Japanese game from my Japan account, what can you do with it? Your account is European, the Europe stores don’t have that Japanese game, you can’t find that game in your store. Your European account can’t access the Japanese store either. How do you think the gifting will work?

Even the same game, even if the US version and Europe versions have exactly the same content, they have different product codes. (If you look at the folder name of the save files, you will see. The save files are not cross-region compatible either.) You cannot find the US game on Europe store (cos they have different codes) and vice versa, how do you suppose the gifting will work?

I am all for breaking down the region barriers and have one big store with consistent prices and discounts, but the fact is Sony has different legal entitles in the regions. This is beyond simple reorganisatio...

Seriously, you keep asking about Cross Region Gifting, can you at least define what you mean by that?

Say I gift you a Japanese game from my Japan account, what can you do with it? Your account is European, the Europe stores don’t have that Japanese game, you can’t find that game in your store. Your European account can’t access the Japanese store either. How do you think the gifting will work?

Even the same game, even if the US version and Europe versions have exactly the same content, they have different product codes. (If you look at the folder name of the save files, you will see. The save files are not cross-region compatible either.) You cannot find the US game on Europe store (cos they have different codes) and vice versa, how do you suppose the gifting will work?

I am all for breaking down the region barriers and have one big store with consistent prices and discounts, but the fact is Sony has different legal entitles in the regions. This is beyond simple reorganisation of the stores. (For that matter, buying a game from Japan store goes into Sony Japan’s ledger book. Gifting that to someone in Europe has accounting and taxation implications that goes beyond ‘cross region gifting’.)

Why don’t you explain what exactly you want and why exactly you want it?

Quite simply I want it in the way that breaks those moronic regionbarriers scee have made, so games gifted from US (or DLC incase I got the physical (US) game), So I can get those.ofcourse, Id expect rather slow dl speeds on the games/dlc from other regions.And yes, that do mean if I got gifted a Japanese game, id be downloading that Japanese game. Japanese text/voice and all..

So you are expecting that if someone gifts you a Japanese game, you will be using your Europe account to download from Japan store. In other words, you expect an account (whatever region) to be able to buy/download from any region’s store. Given that each region is different legal entity and the transactions (and your inventory) are tracked separately, not to mention the accounting/taxation/legal aspects, that’s not gonna happen.

More fundamentally, if you noticed, there’s no same-region or even same-country gifting either. Simply put, there is no trading of ‘pre-owned’ digital games. Obviously they don’t want people to be transferring ownership of used games (read ‘selling’, ‘gifting’, whatever you want to call it). This is beyond region barrier. This is the whole gaming industry trying to make sure that developers/publishers get compensated for their hard work (or just greed).

So you are expecting that if someone gifts you a Japanese game, you will be using your Europe account to download from Japan store. In other words, you expect an account (whatever region) to be able to buy/download from any region’s store. Given that each region is different legal entity and the transactions (and your inventory) are tracked separately, not to mention the accounting/taxation/legal aspects, that’s not gonna happen.

More fundamentally, if you noticed, there’s no same-region or even same-country gifting either. Simply put, there is no trading of ‘pre-owned’ digital games. Obviously they don’t want people to be transferring ownership of used games (read ‘selling’, ‘gifting’, whatever you want to call it). This is beyond region barrier. This is the whole gaming industry trying to make sure that developers/publishers get compensated for their hard work (or just greed).

Assuming you mean gifting of brand new purchases (not ‘used’), well, if they let your Europe account download from Japan store, why don’t you just buy it yourself from Japan store? Wait, that will mean each store will have to accept payment from foreign credit card/Paypal directly. (Wouldn’t that be a better approach — to enable cross-region purchases and cross-region payment? No complexity of used game sales.) Or why can’t a friend in Japan just buy a Japan PSN stored-value card and give you the code so that you can use your Japan account to buy whatever you want directly? (In fact that’s virtually what many people are doing. Make an US account, buy a PSN card from US sources like Amazon, then just buy the games from US store.)

Sorry for hijacking yet another thread, but is there any way to contact someone that is responsible for blog without twitter/facebook?

The thing is we are trying to bring game to VITA (don’t be afraid I’m not going to talk about FF Type-0) but to get it we will have to reach stretch goal on their kickstarter page. The game is called World End Economica from the author of Spice and Wolf and translated by sekaiproject. I don’t know if anyone from sekaiproject tried to contact you already… but we fans are also trying to look for some help… so we have been thinking…

Would it be possible for someone from blog team to post something about their kickstarter campaign on this blog? Every help would be great!

I know that all publishers can do that without SCEE team via accessing Sce DevNet but sekaiproject is getting funds on kickstarter… and we don’t know whether they will succeed or not.

Sorry for hijacking yet another thread, but is there any way to contact someone that is responsible for blog without twitter/facebook?

The thing is we are trying to bring game to VITA (don’t be afraid I’m not going to talk about FF Type-0) but to get it we will have to reach stretch goal on their kickstarter page. The game is called World End Economica from the author of Spice and Wolf and translated by sekaiproject. I don’t know if anyone from sekaiproject tried to contact you already… but we fans are also trying to look for some help… so we have been thinking…

Would it be possible for someone from blog team to post something about their kickstarter campaign on this blog? Every help would be great!

I know that all publishers can do that without SCEE team via accessing Sce DevNet but sekaiproject is getting funds on kickstarter… and we don’t know whether they will succeed or not.

We managed to gather 45 thousand $… the VITA goal is 100 thousands. 21 days to go.

WEE is Visual Novel… I’m not sure… but if we succeed it might be first typical japanese VN on playstation NA/EU

But I’m not going to stop unless I hear at least some reply. I will understand if you say you can’t because it is against your policy, or something…. but I would like to hear it.

Can someone with twitter help me and write about it to Fred Dutton or someone else responsible for blog?

SCEE don’t you want more games on VITA? It is win-win situation! You will get one more title which you will be able to brag about, we will get game that we want, sekairpoject will reach last stretch goal.

That price on UFC, 100$. PSN NA has it for 60$. That’s pretty much 65% more expensive. Why are Europeans kept being extorted like that? Doesn’t SCEE have enough Ferrarris and Lamborghinis in their garages, or are they gathering all that money to build more garages and a bonus Aston Martin?

Also, why is there no Dynasty Warriors 8 sale on PS4? I really want to buy it, but as if I’d pay the full extortion price. No.

This… and it’s not just PSN. Store prices are horrible as well compared to the US.E69.99 for PS4 games that go for $59.99 in the States. Some years back I contacted Sony regarding this issue. They blamed it on taxes. Well, salestax is ‘only’ 21% here in Netherlands. Not the 40/50% increase we have to pay. (I had also contacted Nintendo and Microsoft, Nintendo blamed stores for pricing, Microsoft only said they don’t discus pricing.)

They only make people buy items from the US and shipping it over and still be cheaper most of the time.

Sadly… those 2 titles are not availabe in SCEE… but this time I can’t really complain… it could be better! but Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition (VITA) is not bad deal… Even me… person who don’t like digital games is considering buying it… but I will probably wait for physical…. but still it is good deal.

agree awful update, was also wanting to get tombraider as well, but just like you microsoft will be getting my money, its a pretty sad state affairs when i can get better deals from microsoft for new gen games, even before sale tomb raider was £5 cheaper for xbox one fro there store

While I agree the pricing is generally better on XBO than on the PS4, there has only been one…yes ONE…exclusive digital (arcade) title released in six months, against the 15+ on PSN. Granted 90% of the recent releases for the PS4 have been a little crap…but still.

Fez. . . Already? I think I am gonna hold back on buying the indie titles on day one. It hurt last week seeing Octodad on sale and now Fez. . . Time to learn patience methinks. Speaking of pricing, Watchdogs. . . When is the pricing for the PS4 version going to be, you know, realistic?

Speaking of indies. . . And slightly contradicting my point, do we have dates for Chase the Sun, Velocity Ultra 2 and 1001 spikes?

Hi i purchased Sound Shapes(@discounted price) + all dlc in the vita store, now i wanted to download it on ps4 since it crossbuy, i can download the game but for the dlc it wont let me there is simple no option theres only a ‘purchased’ icon no download icon. ..can u help me and other users i searched on internet and there doesnt seem to be a fix for this but many experience this store glitch. ..Thanks in advance

Hey,You could try to add them to dowload to your PS4 via browser – just log in to your account, type “Sound Shapes” into search window, choose “Sound Shapes PS4”, then go to DLCs and try to add every single of them to download to your PS4.

So, I’m just gonna ask the same question I’ve been asking for two weeks now, in the hope I can finally get an answer this time (if not, I’ll try again next week in all caps). So, here goes: “Will the PS2 classic Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer’s Call come to the PlayStation Store?”

Please answer with: “Yes.”, “No.” or “I don’t know, but I’ll ask the guy who normally knows such things and then come back to you.”

So we finally get some Pinball arcade dlc, except we dont since Black Rose standard pack (ps3) isnt listed. Where as the pro update is listed twice. Also is it true that it is ps3, vita AND PS4 crossbuy now ?!?

I just got a Vita.1) I missed the Final Fantasy sale earlier this year.Any chance you can put the games up for discount again so I can get them all on one Vita memory card ?2) The playstation store blog update last week ( 11 June 2014) stated that Thomas was Alone is cross buy.But on the PS store, nowhere in the item description does it state that Thomas was Alone is cross buy.It only states that the discounted price is only for PS3.I intend to purchase it but I need to know if it really indeed is cross buy.

I never thought we’d see Dragon Fantasy. Is Book II coming as well? How about Mutant Mudds Deluxe?

Not to sound like a broken record, but please tell me there are plans to fix the Vita store. It’s an inconsistent mess. All Vita games doesn’t have all Vita games at all and some games are listed twice in a row (Borderlands 2, Sly Cooper 4). It’s in need of a real good tidying up.

Would have bought DW8:XL on PS4 if it had been on sale, even if it was less a “sale” and more just offering it at a not insulting price (like say £40… the price it is in GAME right now, not on sale)… But hey, if you don’t want my money…

Afternoon Jawad, quick and hopefully easy to answer question for you. Will The Last of Us Remastered for PS4 be available on the store for pre-order or on release day? Hopefully it will be and have a realistic price as the publishers set this, show EA/Ubi that £55 minimum is too much. Also, it’s a bargain for Cross Buy Fez this week.

For anyone interested, The Last of Us PS4 is now around £37 to £38 at several online retailers now (Shopto, Simply and Amazon) have all lowered the price from the £50 mark. I genuinely hope that Sony set an example of fair online pricing and offer this on PSN for a max of £40. Personally I would like to go digital but the high prices are a real problem. Why buy Destiny for £55 (PS4) when you can get a physical copy from Amazon for £45?

Sony .. ufc comes out in belgium the 19th … why do i have to wait till the 20th because i was so dumb to preorder it on the store … plz release the games in the store as they release in the ..real stores .. and why are the digital editions more expensive then the discs… shouldn’t it be the other way around? ..

how about giving us the same discounts the USA got like for dead nation apocalypse on ps4? its slim pickings as it is with Sony not being able to fullfill its orders for PS4 and developers holding back their releases because of this (you’re not fooling me). We, PS4 owners of the first hour expect some kind of compensation. Nothing truly next gen yet to be found and PS plus is effectively just paying for multiplayer as it stands

I can’t seem to find the free DLC for “Atelier Rorona Plus: The Alchemist of Arland” on the webstore. Can anybody help me? Also, what happened to the free Mandarin-costumes for “Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends – Complete Edition” that were to be released a few weeks ago. They disappeared to the store due to some weird error, but haven’t since returned. Any updates on those? Thanks in advance for replies!

This is probably one of those games where you technically only buy one version, but afterwards the other version(s) become free to download from the Store. It takes a bit more effort, but you get your three different versions.